Politics
George H.W. Bush, U.S. President as Iron Curtain Fell, Dies at 94
- Formed coalition to beat Iraq’s army after it invaded Kuwait
- Faltering U.S. economy undermined his bid for re-election
Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg
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George H.W. Bush, the U.S. president who fashioned a restrained response to the Soviet Union’s collapse and assembled the multinational coalition that liberated Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion, hoping that would be a model for “a new world order,” has died. He was 94.
Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday at his home in Houston, according to a statement from a family spokesman. The longest-living president in American history, he used a wheelchair in recent years after being diagnosed with a form of Parkinson’s disease. His wife of 73 years, Barbara, died on April 17 at age 92.